Lisa Weeda
(Rotterdam, 1989) is a Dutch-Ukrainian writer, literary programme maker, theatre maker and VR director. Her debut novel Aleksandra was published in 2021. Her grandmother is the central character in the story. She sends the main character Lisa to the Donbas to bring a cloth to the grave of her murdered uncle Kolya. In 2024, Dans Dans Revolutie (Dance Dance Revolution) was published, a novel in which Weeda tackles the issue of looking away from and looking at war in four storylines. The immersive theatre installation of the same name, Dans Dans Revolutie, won the Designers' Prize at the Dutch Theatre Festival in 2025. In Het archief Jilles - brief aan mijn grootvader (The Jilles Archive - Letter to My Grandfather, 2025), she describes how an archive discovery brings a loved one closer. Together with Teddy Tops, she compiled J'accuse (2025), a collection of texts by forty Dutch, Flemish and international writers who speak out against the erasure of the Palestinians. Lisa's work has been translated in eight countries.
Go to the website of Lisa Weeda here
Instagram: @lisa_weeda
Past events
Book of My Life: Lisa Weeda in conversation with Charlotte Remarque
About Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by Rebecca F. Kuang.
Writing in Times of War
Mini-college by leading historian Timothy Snyder (USA) followed by a conversation with him and fellow authors Andrei Kurkov (Ukraine) and Lisa Weeda (Netherlands). Moderator: Eva Hartog.
Books Unlimited: Nino Haratischwili and Alain Mabanckou
Two interviews. Meet international top writers and their latest bestsellers: Haratischwili's The eighth life and Mabanckou's Black Moses.
